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One Ocean, Our Future – an exhibition by the Australian National Maritime Museum

One Ocean, Our Future

1 Dec 2021 - 16 Oct 2022

Mesmerising, mysterious and the future of all life on earth.

Covering more than 70 per cent of the Earth's surface and supplying half its oxygen, the ocean is our planet's life support system. 

The ocean provides 50 per cent of the air we breathe and affects our weather, climate, food supply, culture and wellbeing. Learn how we are intimately tied to the ocean in this immersive exhibition and how a changing climate, overfishing and pollution are affecting our future. 

Marvel at the wonders of the ocean and the diversity of Australia's marine life revealed by Schmidt Ocean Institute's 2020 circumnavigation of Australia aboard their research vessel Falkor. Discover, manipulate and inspect 3D visualisations of five extraordinary deep-sea specimens, ponder on the climate record contained in a real Antarctic ice core, hear about the impacts of a changing planet and ocean from witnesses, and learn how two centuries of analysing and examining the ocean have given us the knowledge to make things change for the better.  

What kind of ocean would you be? Take our ocean personality quiz as you make your way through the exhibition to find out!

 

 

Dive Deeper into One Ocean - Our Future

 

Discover how marine science technology has changed over time, allowing scientists to better understand our ocean.

 

Join Professor Martina Doblin from the University of Technology Sydney as she takes us through some fascinating examples of how marine science equipment has changed over time.

 

Highlighting examples that have been developed and deployed by the CSIRO's Marine National Facility in Australia - learn about modern sonar systems, CTDs (Conductivity, Temperature, and Depth), ocean research vessels, autonomous equipment and robotic floats, and the ever lasting and reliable Continuous Plankton Recorder.

 

These objects and more are on display in the One Ocean - Our Future exhibition. Thanks to our friends at CSIRO for co-producing this video with us.

 

 

 

 

Also on display, the RangerBot drone is the first underwater robotic system designed specifically for monitoring, inspection and management of coral reef environments. Using robot vision, it views and classifies coral species, and finds and removes invasive pests like the Crown of Thorns starfish, the scourge of the Great Barrier Reef. This ‘killer’ of an AUV (Autonomous Underwater Vehicle) releases a toxin through its injector arm that poisons the invasive starfish.

 

Developed by Queensland University of Technology, RangerBot also does nursemaid duty. Professor Matthew Dunbabin and the QUT robotics team can transform RangerBot into “LarvalBot’ to help deliver lab-reared baby coral larvae onto targeted reefs to distribute as 'larval clouds' on to damaged reef areas.

 

Thanks to Bengar films for producing this video with us.

 

 

 

The CTD is a fundamental instrument for ocean research, measuring water conductivity, temperature and depth (CTD), and collecting seawater samples for further analysis. Image courtesy of CSIRO Researchers in the CTD laboratory on board RV Investigator collected seawater samples from the bottles on the CTD instrument. Photo by Thomas Moore. Image courtesy of CSIRO A rare deep-sea hydroid was discovered by Dr Nerida Wilson (Chief Scientist, Western Australian Museum) and her team. This giant hydroid, approximately a meter high, was found at 2,497 m in Cape Range Canyon using ROV SuBastian. Branchiocerianthus is a giant hydroid that consists of a single polyp on a long stem living on a sandy bottom. It is a close relative of corals, anemones and sea fans. Giant hydroids have never been observed in Australian waters before, so this one might be a new species. Image courtesy of Schmidt Ocean Institute ROV SuBastian's manipulators gently grasp a black coral growing on a nautilus shell at a depth of 550 meters deep at Herald Cays. This black coral belongs to a family called Schizopathidae; however, experts suspect the genus might belong to an entirely different family. With this complete specimen researchers will finally be able to extract and sequence its DNA, comparing it with species from both families to see to which family it is most closely related. Image courtesy of Schmidt Ocean Institute Professor Matt Dunbabin on the Great Barrier Reef with a robotic boat delivering baby coral larvae as part of the Coral IVF program . Photo by Gary Cranitch. Image courtesy of QUT While mapping the seafloor off the coast of North Queensland, scientists onboard the RV Falkor found a large, detached coral reef, measuring more than 500 meters (1,640 feet) in height, in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park of Australia. This is the eighth known detached coral reef in the area, and the first to be discovered in the past 120 years. Image courtesy of Schmidt Ocean Institute

 

Main image: Photo by Tim Mossholder

One Ocean – Our Future is part of the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (2021 – 2030)

One Ocean – Our Future is funded by the USA Bicentennial Gift Fund.

United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development 2021-2030 logoAust Antarctic logo            CSIRO logo.  

    

   

 

 

 

 

   
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